Wednesday, April 29, 2009

My First 'Fill'

Last Fri I had my first 'fill' or 'adjustment' for my lapband. This is where they add the saline thru the port to tighten the band. The reason it is also referred to as an adjustment is because they can also remove saline if the band is too tight.

When the lapband was originally put around my stomach during the surgery they do not keep saline in it because there is already a lot of swelling going on for the stomach due to the invasiveness of having the band put on initially. So with the surgery they place the band around and attach the port then test the band by adding saline to make sure it will work. Then they remove the saline and stitch ya all back up.

So now that I had my fill, I feel full a lot faster and definately feel a difference if I eat larger bites. So far I have lost a total of 15 lbs. Yay me!

2 comments:

dhuffer said...

YAY WTG ---- although I must say reading how and what they do freaks me out a bit :)

coneandmo said...

Yay! Good to hear. I was wondering how your "fill" was treating you. :)